Evan Williams: I'm Not Leaving Twitter, But I Do Have A Secret Side Project Underway

Yesterday I wrote about Jack Dorsey’s return to Twitter as Executive Chairman, and proposed that this new appointment (amongst other developments at Twitter) didn’t leave a lot of room for Evan Williams, who I speculated might be on his way out.

Tuesday evening, Williams addressed some of these issues in his personal blog, but although he remains bullish on Twitter’s future, I’m still not convinced it’s something in which he is going to be playing a major role.

Williams writes about his past successes, first with Blogger, which he explains he left simply because he felt the company was in good hands (under Jason Goldman, who would also play a major role in Twitter’s rise before stepping down as Vice President Of Product late last year).

Williams isn’t specific on his personal plans for ‘what’s coming next’ – which confirms that he is working on another start-up as I speculated – but he...

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